[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-06-12, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2023-06-12 01:33, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>> If we approximate security risk as:
>> 
>> f(applications, threats, practices)
>> 
>> then my claim is that:
>> 
>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_2023) < 
>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_1983)
>> 
>> and:
>> 
>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_2023) < 
>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_1983)
>> 
>> I am not claiming that:
>> 
>> f(applications_2023, threats_2023, practices_2023) < 
>> f(applications_1983, threats_1983, practices_1983)
>
>:-)
>
> Yeah, that I can agree with.
>

OTOH, we live in a world where it is acceptable to place an external
internet-based dependency to a left-pad function into a production
code base. :-(

Bloody Javascript programmers will be the death of us all...

Simon.

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